Multi-Agent Systems Course

Course Organisation (PósAutomação/UFSC 2022-2)

Date	Topic
6/9	Introduction	Slides
		Reading: Chapter 2 of MAOP book
		Reading: AgentLink Roadmap
	Agents	Reading: Intelligent Agents (Wooldridge)
		Reading: Agent definition vs test (Huhns & Singh) (2 pages)
13/9	AOP	Tutorial: JaCaMo getting started: Chapter 3 of MAOP Book)
		(optional: Jason Getting Started)
		Reading: Chapter 4 of MAOP book
		Reading: Review AOP (Cardoso et al)
		Slides / Jason
20/9	Interaction	Reading: Speech Acts (Searle)
		Reading: Speech Acts in AOP (Renata Vieira et al)
		Reading: Sections 7.1 and 7.2 of MAOP book
		Reading: Developing MAS FIPA-compliant (Bellifemine et al)
		Reading: JADE white paper (Bellifemine et al)
		Slides / Example of programs (Maicon)
		Tutorial: Jason + Jade
		Download: program that starts several Jade agents
27/9	BDI	Reading: Intention is Choice with Commitment (Cohen et al)
		Reading: Two Faces of Intention (Bratman)
		Reading: Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning (Bratman et al)
		Reading: Languages for BDI (Mascardi et al)
		Tutorial: Jason Hello BDI
		Documentation: Jason Programming Patterns
4/10	Environment	Slides / CArtAgO
		Reading: Chapters 3, 5, 6, and Section 7.3 of MAOP book
		Reading: Environment programming (Ricci et al)
11,18/10	JaCaMo	Reading: Multi-agent oriented programming (Boissier et al)
		Tutorial: JaCaMo Hello World
		Tutorial: Gold Miners
		Deadline for Practical Exercise 1
25/10	Organisation	Slides / Moise
		Reading: Chapters 8 and 9 of MAOP book
		Reading: Moise Model (Hubner et al)
		Reading: ORA4MAS
1/11	Norms	Slides / NPL
		Reading: Introduction to NorMAS (Boella et al)
		Reading: Norms in MAS (Balke et al)
		Reading: Survey (Mahmoud et al)
		Reading: Normative Programming Language used in JaCaMo
8/11	Coordination	Reading: Coordination Infrastructures (Omicini et al)
		Reading: Teamwork (Choen et Levesque)
		Tutorial: Coordination with JaCaMo
		Deadline for Practical Exercise 2
		Deadline for seminar topics
22/11	MAOP	Slides / JaCaMo
		Tutorial: building a house (in JaCaMo distribution file)
		Reading: On agent-based software engineering (Jennings)
29/11		Seminars
6/12		(Seminars – cont.)
13/12		Deadline for Practical Exercise 3